[Bug 1969709] Re: libreoffice font selection unusably slow

[Rico Tzschichholz]

** Bug watch added: Document Foundation Bugzilla #148169
   https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148169

** Also affects: df-libreoffice via
   https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148169
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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Title:
  libreoffice font selection unusably slow

Status in LibreOffice:
  Unknown
Status in fontconfig package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Trying to scroll through the font list in the menu bar, I experience
  an unacceptable degree of lagging. Just popping up the dropdown list
  takes 7-10 seconds and the system takes the same amount of time to
  respond to perform individidual scrolling gestures. The CPU jumps to
  100% and the whole system becomes unresponsive.

  I have tried deb, snap and even the packages offered on the site of
  the LibreOffice project. They all manifest the same behaviour. The
  only thing that works is disabling font previews. I have downgraded to
  7.2 for now, which appears to be unaffected.

  I have contacted the LibreOffice team and they tell me that this
  should be solved by fontconfig 2.14. Unfortunately, Ubuntu 22.04 is
  shipping 2.13...

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
  Package: libreoffice-core 1:7.3.2-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-25.25-generic 5.15.30
  Uname: Linux 5.15.0-25-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Thu Apr 21 05:01:24 2022
  ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-03-27 (24 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Alpha amd64 (20220326)
  SourcePackage: libreoffice
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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